jan 1, 1911 - Rutherford's Model of The Atom
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This model is known as the nuclear model. Rutherford attempted to test Thomson's model with radioactivity in an experiment using gold foil and a type of radiation called alpha particles.
Rutherford proposed that the nucleus is a very tiny, dense and positively charged core of an atom.
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